Mercury Summer Theatre
King Lear
Mercury Summer Theatre brings the Mercury Theatre’s dramatic approach to radio, presenting a season of literary adaptations and plays. This broadcast features William Shakespeare’s King Lear, the tragedy of an aging king whose decision to divide his kingdom among his daughters sets off a devastating struggle over loyalty, power, and family.
Shakespeare’s play moves from the royal court into a storm-swept landscape, following Lear’s unraveling alongside the fortunes of his daughters and the people caught in the kingdom’s upheaval. Radio brings the drama close through spoken performance and sound, letting the language, shifting relationships, and emotional intensity carry the story.
The result is a serious, theatrical listening experience rooted in one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies: a story of pride, betrayal, suffering, and hard-won insight.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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